Second great video game depression is here folks!
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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before anyone says Microsoft/Xbox are idiots and are sabotaging themselves... yes they are but also this strategy is an extremely successful longterm strategy so long as you have enough money to survive the temporary collapse and can buy up large chunks of the industry during the downswing.
Eventually if you keep doing this then you own most of the industry and neither developers nor gamers have any choice but to accept the crap you serve them. Problem solved.
Does this work when it comes to intellectual property, something that can be made theoretically indefinetly? Some of its older IPs have lost their luster because of bad usage.
You gotta remember your EEE's. Embrace, Extend and Exterminate.
Also just the AAA experience - its a boom and bust cycle: hire people, work them to death for release, and then lay them off after so the numbers look real good
Such a stupid cycle - you'd think retaining experienced developers would be more efficient..
Honestly it's just the tech job experience.
They don't care. You have to maximize profits next quarter
When shareholders and stock prices get involved, humans stop being people.
We don't exist as individuals to the people in charge. We're just numbers in an accounting program. We're collectively part of one giant metric called Labour; a line item on a yearly budget that is meant to be managed and minimized for the benefit of the company's stock price.
dElay, dEny, dEpose
What the hell did they think was going to happen?
If you like your job and your company gets bought be a large corporation (or worse, private equity), immediately start working on your resume. the death spiral has begun.
No shit